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Tens of millions of people in the South are dealing with a severe weather condition danger one week after twisters killed at least 36 individuals throughout the region.
The National Weather Condition Provider’ Storm Forecast Center stated tornadoes and severe thunderstorms are expected from late Sunday early morning into the over night hours.
” Another Sunday that we have some truly rough conditions to get through,” Fox News Chief Meteorologist Rick Reichmuth said on “Fox & Pals Weekend.”
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Many extreme storms are anticipated to threaten areas from eastern Texas to South Carolina, putting more than 54 million at risk, according to forecasters.
The danger of serious weather condition throughout the South on Sunday, April 19,2020
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” In fact, it’s looking a little bit even worse now than we thought yesterday, that hazard for severe weather condition,” Reichmuth said.
An initial round of extreme storms is anticipated to move out of Texas into western Louisiana late Sunday morning, with large hail and wind damage as the initial hazard. Reichmuth said that “actually warm air” combined with high humidity is setting the phase for the storms.
” That suffices moisture with the temperature that we are going to see storms start to fire early throughout parts of Texas and Louisiana, and then throughout the day it manages towards the east,” he stated.
As those storms move east, tornadoes will be possible along the southern edge as the storms arrive in central Mississippi and west-central Alabama by afternoon.
The storm center stated the area at the best danger of serious weather condition consists of north-central Louisiana eastward to southern and main Mississippi, Alabama and isouth-central Georgia.
The best risk of tornadoes on Sunday, April 19,2020
” That red bullseye there is the most significant threat for some large, long-lasting tornadoes that could be truly destructive like we saw recently,” Reichmuth stated. “Exact same set-up in the precise very same place.”
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Some 5 million people in locations such as Montgomery, Ala., Jackson, Miss., and Columbus and Macon, Ga., are at risk.
Reichmuth said the extreme weather risk begins earlier than the lethal break out on Easter Sunday however will last longer.
” It’s a long-term event with a series of storms crossing the same location over a variety of hours,” he stated.
The severe weather danger shifts to the coast by Monday.
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A swath of harmful winds and a continued tornado threat will likewise extend throughout Georgia and parts of South Carolina through Sunday night.
Heavy rain may also impact the South, triggering flooding as a serious weather condition threatens the region on Sunday, April 19,2020
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Forecasters and guvs prompted people to keep an eye on the weather and take precautions.
” As severe weather condition is anticipated this weekend, I advise everyone to remain weather condition aware and get a strategy. Please continue to keep track of regional media outlets for weather-related information and updates and hearken directions from local authorities,” Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards stated on Facebook.
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The storm threat comes a week after Easter storms pounded the Deep South.
Sunday’s twister that hit Jefferson Davis County, Miss., ruined or heavily broken multiple buildings consisting of these chicken homes Tuesday, April 14, 2020, in the Williamsburg community of the rural county.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
